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- adverb In a
paralyzing manner.
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Examples
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Once, during a paralyzingly cold winter, you decided to take up knitting.
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If they do, their majorities will be paralyzingly small.
Maybe the Dems should lose the House? Jonathan Capehart 2010
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But the grand Junior League classic, written by everyone's dowager aunt (incuding mine), contains some tongue-paralyzingly bad recipes.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Poets and writers, Kho'i contends, can also be paralyzingly overwhelmed by the troubles in Iran.
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The authors we read at that age, like Judy Blume and Lois Lowry, created such visceral, formative literary experiences for both of us that they loomed paralyzingly large.
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Not so "The Chairs," whose zesty, near-vaudevillian comic turns enliven a vision of man's fate that might otherwise be paralyzingly dark -- especially when you see it in the Sunshine State.
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It would become paralyzingly frustrating to pick from the limited list English has on offer.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lauri 2009
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It would become paralyzingly frustrating to pick from the limited list English has on offer.
Not Enough Words Lauri 2009
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The culture was paralyzingly closed and conformist.
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"How much dog sauce you got?" said his paralyzingly piercing brown eyes,"Gimme dog sauce, and then we'll talk."
blog: February 2008 2008
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